I finally got 1 of my 54 ovals home on the weekend, this is 1 of 2 i purchased of a fella i know who does not have the time to finnish it, i actually done a sandblasted full body off on rotiserie resto on this car for the previous owner over 10 years ago,the resto took approx 2 years,it sat untouched for 10 years in his shed, the previous owner bought heaps of gear for it over the years but never assembled it.
Purchase included:
all new upholstered interior except carpet
all new rubbers
new running boards with new wide strips
new chrome bumpers
new heart t/light lenses
powdecoated seat frames, column, gearstick etc
spare reco gearbox
spare low klm 54 engine
spare 54 car

Work still needed:
the body was recently lifted back on, i need to remove it and paint the pan
the previous owner had a heap of blankets covering it, unfortunately a couple of those blankets must have been used to mop up a liquid of some sort which has started eating into the paint a little on half the roof and rear apron so i will try to denib it and polish it out but not sure if its too late, i may need to paint the roof again...BUGGER!

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This is it coming back from the sandblaster 12 yrs ago

Sweet mate yes it is a lot like my 55 oval when i bought it

I am so jealous of you guys who find things like this lying around

This is what the resto started as, it was used as a farm hack for many years.It was also owned by the 1 family i think since new from memory.

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Do you have any plans on getting it finnished and will you be going stock or custom rebuild?

i ned to extend my front deck out first and build in under it for more garage space, once that is done i will have the space to lift the body back off and finish it, it will remain 100% stock standard.

Hey did you get this from Mr Been? I ask as I think I picked them up from your place and moved them to his shed, i did not think he would have ever got round to fixing them up.

Stephen

nah mate, these are not beans ones, as far as i know he still has my old ones

heres the other 1, dont know what the future holds for it, its pretty rusty, missing front seats, fuel tank, a couple guards and the bonnet is a 60s one

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drag car????????

These things are falling out of the sky at the moment, here is a 57 I picked up a couple of months ago

Yep oval beetle's showing up every where and i thought i had a not very common car not anymore

good to see they are all getting good homes and not chopped up by guys wearing backward facing baseball caps or 1kg of metal in their faces